Translation of: Cosmographia. Beschreibung aller Lender. 1544. First published in Latin: 1550

Date of publication from colophon

Signatures: pi⁶ a-l⁸ A-B⁸ C-F⁸/⁶ G-R² S-X⁸ Y-Bb⁴/² Cc⁸ Dd-Gg⁴/² Hh² Ii⁴ Kk-Mm⁸ Nn² Oo-Tt⁸ Vu⁶ Xx² Yy-Zz⁸ AA-BB⁴ CC-FF⁸ GG-II² KK⁴ LL-MM² NN⁴ OO⁴ PP⁶ QQ⁴ RR-VV²/⁸ XX⁴ YY¹° ZZ⁸ AAa⁴ BBb-CCc⁸ DDd⁴ EEe² FFf-GGg⁸ HHh⁶ IIi² KKk⁴ LLl² MMm⁶ NNn⁸ OOo⁴ PPp-QQq² RRr⁶ SSs⁴ TTt² VVu⁸ XXx² YYy¹° ZZz⁶ AAA⁴ BBB-III⁸ KKK⁶ LLL⁴ MMM-PPP⁸ QQQ⁶ RRR⁴ SSS-YYY⁸ ZZZ⁶ AAAa⁴ BBBb-CCCc⁸ DDDd⁴ EEEe⁸ (EEEe7 verso blank; Yy5, YY5, FFf4, LLL3, AAAa3 missigned Yy4, FF5, EFf4, LLL2, AAAa2)

Numerous errors in pagination

Printer's device on title page

There are 3 folding views which comprise eight pages each: the first found between pages 588 and 593 is numbered 589-590 and has the first leaf signed 003; the second and third found between pages 750-755, and 822 and 827, are numbered 751-752 and 823-825 and are signed EEe2-EEe3 and MMm4-MMm5

Includes index

Pages 1260-1279: De novis insulis

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Alden, J.E. European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy lacks 2nd half of the view of Worms (between pages 588 and 593); lacks maps 10, 11, 12; title page, leaves EEE7-8 mounted; sides trimmed with some loss of marginalia

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